Vereniging voor Ordinatie en Classificatie
Dutch/Flemish Classification Society

Jubilee Conference

2024 VOC Jubilee conference

The next VOC Jubilee conference is coming! The VOC would like to invite you to attend its next Jubilee Conference at November 21-22, 2024 at the IVWS estate in Leusden, The Netherlands. The programme features top speakers in ordination and classification and covers theoretical developments as well as all areas of application (ranging from chemometrics to ecology).

Programme

Thursday, 21 November 2024
11:00 – 11:30Arrival (11:00) and Welcome (11:25)
11:30 – 12:15Fred van Eeuwijk (WUR) – Modelling of Genotype by Environment by Management Interactions
12:15 – 13:30Lunch
13:30 – 15:00Marieke Timmerman (RUG) – Statistical Modelling Approaches to Derive Norms for a Psychological Test
 Eyke Hullermeier (LMU Munich) – Uncertainty Quantification in Machine Learning: From Aleatoric to Epistemic
15:00 – 15:45Coffee Break
15:45 – 18:00Sanwouly Marlene Yao (RU) – Handheld Spectroscopy for Quality Assessment in the Chemical industry (Student Presentation Award Winner)
 Bert van der Veen (NTNU) – From Model-based to Hierarchical Ordination in Community Ecology
 Katrijn van Deun (TIU) – Easy Analysis of Complex Data: Regularized Multigroup Approximate Exploratory Factor Analysis
18:00 –Drinks (18:00) and Dinner (19:00)

Friday, 22 November 2024
07:00 – 09:00Breakfast
09:00 – 10:30Marina Cocchi (Modena) – Developing Locally Weighted Multiblock Approaches for Real Time Quality Prediction in Latent Variable Multivariate-based Process Monitoring
 Iven van Mechelen (KU Leuven) – Redeeming at Last the Classipedia Promise: Onset of a Conceptual Outline Map to Get a Hold on the Jungle of Cluster Analysis
10:30 – 11:15Coffee Break
11:15 – 12:45Andreas Alfons (EUR) – Robust Correlation Estimation with Discrete Rating-scale Data
 Alberto Ferrer (València) – Multivariate Six Sigma for Industry 4.0
12:45 – 14:00Lunch
14:00 – 15:30Yves Rosseel (Ghent) – The Structural-after-measurement (SAM) Approach to SEM
 Jeanine Houwing-Duistermaat (RU) – Statistical Integration of Cross-sectional and Longitudinal Omics Datasets
15:30Closing